Abstract
Organizational deviant behaviors can be defined as behaviors that have deviated from standards and uncongenial to organization's expectations. When such behaviors have been thought to damage the organization, it can be said that reducing the deviation behaviors at minimum level is necessary for a healthy organization. The aim of this research is to determine the level of teachers' organizational deviant behaviors to show the relationship between deviant behavior level and principal's leadership styles. Research's data were collected from 557 secondary school teachers working in Izmir province by using scales named as “Organizational Deviance Scale for Schools” and “Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire”. According to the findings, teachers have displayed organizational deviant behaviors at low level and principals have absorbed transformational and interactional leadership. According to correlation analysis, there has been a negative relationship between organizational deviant behaviors and transformational and interactional leadership styles, and a positive relationship between organizational deviant behaviors and laissez-faire leadership. Findings have explained the effect of principals' leadership styles on deviant behavior. As a recommendation, to decrease these deviant behaviors, principals who tend to show transactional and transformational leadership behaviors can be guided and trained about the reasons of deviant behaviors, and how to reduce these deviant behaviors. Key words: Organizational deviance, multi-factor leadership, education.
Highlights
Some obstacles hindering the achievement of organizational goals may show up, and some of these obstacles can stem from organizational deviant behaviors
This research aims to find out relationship between leadership styles and organizational deviant behavior by exploring school principals’ leadership styles, and the level of organizational deviant behavior with regard to perceptions of teachers working at Anatolian high schools
This study aims to determine the level of organizational deviant behaviors and the school managers’ leadership styles in terms of perceptions of the teachers employed at Anatolian High Schools as well as to reveal the relations between them
Summary
Some obstacles hindering the achievement of organizational goals may show up, and some of these obstacles can stem from organizational deviant behaviors. Organizational deviance can be described as the mismatch of employees' behavior with the expectations and rules of the organization. This concept may include various behaviors ranging from the unimportant ones like gossiping or embarrassing the co-workers to the serious ones like theft and sabotage which have important results (Avcı, 2008). Organizational deviant behaviors are the behaviors like lying, slowdown strike, harassment, gambling, disobedience, violence (Demir, 2009), theft, embezzling, mobbing (O’Neill et al, 2011) which lead to adversity for organizations. Vaguan defines organizational deviance as an activity, situation or formation which deviates from formal goals, normative standards and expectations, and which results in lower outcomes than expected (Brady, 2010). Deviant behaviors emerge disguised as actions like stealing from the office, sharing
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